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Change

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To pursue the bright spots is to ask the question ‘What’s working, and how can we do more of it?’

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…decision paralysis can be deadly for change – because the most familiar path is always the status quo.

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Big-picture, hands-off leadership isn’t likely to work in a change situation, because the hardest part of change – the paralyzing part – is precisely in the details.

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Change begins at the level of individual decisions and behaviors, but that’s a hard place to start because that’s where the friction is.

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Inertia and decision paralysis will conspire to keep people doing things the old way.

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If you’re leading a change effort, you need to remove the ambiguity from your vision of change.

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Until you can ladder your way down from a change idea to a specific behavior, you’re not ready to lead a switch.

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In most change situations, the parameters aren’t well understood, and the future is fuzzy.

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…in almost all successful change efforts, the sequence of change is not ANALYZE-THINK-CHANGE, but rather SEE-FEEL-CHANGE. – Kotter and Cohen

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When people push for a change and it doesn’t happen, they often chalk it up to a lack of understanding.

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